CAM-349
Water is coming in through the gate and still rising
A storm, late in the afternoon. Water is pouring in through the open gate and already covers all the gravel in the yard. A worker in a raincoat and helmet is wading across, water up to his knees. The level is read against something that is always there: the stone courses of the low wall. Four are under water now; half an hour ago it was two. It is not an estimate, it is a reading, and you can see it in the picture.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- water at the transformer base
- person inside the flooded compound
- water pouring in through the gate
- power transformer
- switching cabinet
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 4Courses of the low wall under water
- 2Courses it has risen in half an hour
- 35 minWater inside the compound for
- 1People inside the compound right now
- 1Open access points letting the water in
- 18:52Time of the first alert
The figures on this screen are an example from the illustration, not any client's measurement.
The rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
there is water inside the compound and the level covers one more course of the low wall than the previous reading
Then
- alert the control room with the camera, the time and the level read against the low wall
- repeat the reading every few minutes for as long as water keeps coming in
- keep the video from the first frame with water inside the compound
The instruction that set it up«Tell me the moment water gets inside the compound, and keep telling me how many courses of the low wall it has covered.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
In a flood, what matters is the order of things: what gets switched off first and when people have to be pulled out of the compound. For that you need to know whether the water is still rising or has settled, and how much it has risen since the last report. The camera reads it against the same low wall as always, from the same view, and reports it every few minutes with the picture alongside. The manager stops deciding over the phone and starts deciding by looking.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS measure the water level in centimetres?
It does not invent centimetres. It reads the level against a physical reference that is in the picture itself: the courses of the low wall, the plinth of the control house, the foot of the fence. If that reference has been measured on site, the reading converts to centimetres; if not, it is given in courses. It is a repeatable reading, always from the same view, not an estimate.
Can IRIS shut the substation down if it floods?
No. IRIS does not switch anything and does not trip anything. It reports that there is water inside, how high it has got and whether it is still rising, with the picture and the time. Switching off, and in what order, is decided by a person following the site's procedure.
Does it work at night and in heavy rain?
It works with whatever light there is: the yard lighting, a night camera or a thermal camera already fitted. Rain and wind muddy the picture, which is why the reading is taken against a fixed reference in the compound and not off the surface of the water. If the picture is not good enough to read the level, IRIS says so and still reports that there is water inside.
Other cameras
- CAM-340 · Someone is walking through a compound that is always empty
- CAM-341 · The fence is down and someone is coming through the gap
- CAM-342 · Eleven minutes parked where nobody ever stops
- CAM-343 · A cabinet is being emptied of its copper
- CAM-344 · Flame and black smoke on the transformer
- CAM-345 · A trail of oil under the transformer
Every simulation
Emergency gear blocked
Tell me if something blocks an exit, an emergency shower or a fire lane, or if the equipment is not where it belongs.
- The sentence
- Where it applies
- What it finds
- The same rule
Next step
Who watches an entire motorway?
10 cases: 8 raise an alert when something happens and 2 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
Who watches a whole station at rush hour?
17 cases: 11 raise an alert when something happens and 6 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
Video tells you what happened.An alert reaches you while it is happening.
Reviewing the recording helps you explain. Hearing about it at the time helps you get there. Two different things, and until now you only had the first.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.